February 7 – Walk Straight, Stand Strong

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, February 7th.

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Walk straight, stand strong.
Have you ever felt that quiet

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pull to just blend in, To not
make waves, to do what everyone

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else is doing, even though
something inside you says this

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isn’t right?
That tension shows up more often

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than we like to admit.
It’s in the small moments, the

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shortcuts, the half truths, the
compromises we tell ourselves

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don’t really matter.
But those moments are shaping us

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more than we realize.
Proverbs chapter 10, verse 9

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speaks directly into that space.
It says whoever walks in

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integrity walks securely, but he
who makes his ways crooked will

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be found out.
Integrity isn’t about being

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perfect.
It’s about choosing a straight

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path, even when a crooked 1
looks easier.

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God’s Word reminds us that
integrity brings security.

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There’s a quiet confidence that
comes when you don’t have to

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look over your shoulder, when
you don’t have to keep track of

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lies or excuses, when your life
lines up with what you say you

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believe.
Acts Chapter 7 gives us one of

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the most powerful pictures of
what it means to stand strong.

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Stephen is facing intense
opposition.

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He’s misunderstood, falsely
accused, and surrounded by

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people who want to silence him.
Yet Acts Chapter 7 verse 55

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tells us that Stephen, full of
the Holy Spirit, gazed into

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heaven and saw the glory of God
and Jesus standing at the right

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hand of God.
In his hardest moment, Stephen

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wasn’t focused on fear, anger,
or self preservation.

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His eyes were fixed on Jesus.
That detail matters.

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Scripture often describes Jesus
seated at the right hand of God,

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but here he is standing.
It’s as if heaven is leaning in.

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Jesus is not distant, He is
present, He is watching.

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He is honoring Stephen’s
courage.

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Stephen’s strength didn’t come
from his personality or his

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words.
It came from where he was

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looking.
We face different pressures, but

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the same choice.
Will we walk straight or will we

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bend when it gets uncomfortable?
Will we protect our integrity or

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trade it for temporary approval?
Keeping your eyes on Jesus

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doesn’t remove the difficulty,
but it gives you strength to

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stand when it comes.
When you walk in integrity, you

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may not always be applauded, but
you will be secure.

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When you fix your eyes on Jesus,
you may still face resistance,

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but you will never stand alone.
Courage grows when compromise

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stops.
Peace follows when your path is

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straight.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
reminding me that integrity

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matters.
Help me to walk straight, even

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when it would be easier to take
shortcuts or blend in.

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Fill me with your Holy Spirit
just as you filled Stephen, so I

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can keep my eyes fixed on Jesus
when pressure comes.

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Give me courage to stand strong,
confidence to live honestly, and

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peace that comes from knowing
you are with me in Jesus name,

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Amen.
What if the way you pray changed

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because you truly knew who God
is?

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seen, known, and cared for by a
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mighty God who defends,

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Now I invite you to spend time

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with God in today’s three-year
Bible reading plan Proverbs

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chapter 10 verses 9 to 10 World
English Bible.

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He who walks blamelessly walks
surely, but he who perverts his

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ways will be found out.
One who winks with the eye

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causes sorrow, but a chattering
fool will fall.

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Acts Chapter 7, World English
Bible.

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The high priest said, Are these
things So?

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He said, Brothers and fathers,
listen.

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The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham when he was in

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Mesopotamia, before he lived in
Heron, and said to him, Get out

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of your land and away from your
relatives, and come into a land

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which I will show you.
Then he came out of the land of

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the Chaldeans and lived in Heron
from there.

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When his father was dead, God
moved him into this land where

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you are now living.
He gave him no inheritance in

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it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on.

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He promised that he would give
it to him for a possession and

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to his offspring after him.
When he still had no child.

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God spoke in this way that his
offspring would live as aliens

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in a strange land and that they
would be enslaved and mistreated

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for 400 years.
I will judge the nation to which

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they will be in bondage, said
God.

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And after that they will come
out and serve me in this place.

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He gave him the covenant of
circumcision.

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So Abraham became the father of
Isaac and circumcised him the

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8th day.
Isaac became the father of

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Jacob, and Jacob became the
father of the 12 patriarchs.

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The patriarchs moved with
jealousy against Joseph, sold

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him into Egypt.
God was with him, and delivered

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him out of all his afflictions,
and gave him favor and wisdom

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before Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
He made him governor over Egypt

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and all his house.
Now a famine came over all the

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land of Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction.

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Our fathers found no food.
But when Jacob heard that there

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was grain in Egypt, he sent out
our fathers the first time.

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On the second time, Joseph was
made known to his brothers, and

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Joseph’s family was revealed to
Pharaoh.

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Joseph sent and summoned Jacob,
his father, and all his

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relatives, 75 souls.
Jacob went down into Egypt and

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he died himself and our fathers,
and they were brought back to

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Shechem and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a price

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in silver from the children of
Hammer of Shechem.

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But as the time of the promise
came close, which God had sworn

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to Abraham, the people grew and
multiplied in Egypt until there

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arose a different king who
didn’t know Joseph.

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The same took advantage of our
race and mistreated our fathers

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and forced them to abandon their
babies so that they wouldn’t

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stay alive.
At that time Moses was born and

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was exceedingly handsome to God.
He was nourished 3 months in his

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father’s house.
When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s

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daughter took him up and reared
him as her own son.

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Moses was instructed in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians.

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He was mighty in his words and
works.

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But when he was 40 years old, it
came into his heart to visit his

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brothers, the children of
Israel.

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Seeing one of them suffer wrong,
he defended him and avenged him

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who was oppressed, striking the
Egyptian.

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He supposed that his brothers
understood that God by his hand

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was giving them deliverance, but
they didn’t understand.

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The day following he appeared to
them as they fought and urged

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them to be at peace again,
saying, Sirs, you are brothers,

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why do you wrong one another?
But he who did his neighbor

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wrong pushed him away, saying,
Who made you a ruler and a judge

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over us?
Do you want to kill me as you

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killed the Egyptian yesterday?
Moses fled at this saying and

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became a stranger in the land of
Midian, where he became the

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father of two sons.
When 40 years were fulfilled, an

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Angel of the Lord appeared to
him in the wilderness of Mount

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Sinai in a flame of fire in a
Bush.

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When Moses saw it, he wondered
at the sight.

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As he came close to see, the
voice of the Lord came to him.

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I am the God of your father’s,
the God of Abraham, the God of

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Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Moses trembled and dared not

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look.
The Lord said to him, Take off

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your sandals, for the place
where you stand is holy ground.

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I have surely seen the
affliction of my people who are

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in Egypt and have heard their
groaning.

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I have come down to deliver
them.

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Now Come, I will send you into
Egypt.

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This Moses, whom they refused,
saying, Who made you a ruler and

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a judge?
God has sent him as both a ruler

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and a deliverer.
By the hand of the Angel who

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appeared to him in the Bush.
This man LED them out, having

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worked wonders and signs in
Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in

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the wilderness for 40 years.
This is that Moses, who said to

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the children of Israel, the Lord
our God will raise up a profit

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for you from among your brothers
like me.

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This is he who was in the
assembly in the wilderness, with

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the Angel that spoke to him on
Mount Sinai, and with our

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fathers who received living
revelations to give to us, to

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whom our fathers wouldn’t be
obedient, but rejected him and

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turned back in their hearts to
Egypt, saying to Aaron, Make us

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gods that will go before us.
For As for this Moses who led us

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out of the land of Egypt, we
don’t know what has become of

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him.
They made a calf in those days

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and brought a sacrifice to the
idol and rejoiced in the works

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of their hands.
But God turned away and gave

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them up to serve the army of the
sky, as it is written in the

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book of the prophets.
Did you offer to me slain

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animals and sacrifices 40 years
in the wilderness?

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O House of Israel, you took up
the Tabernacle of Molech, the

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star of your God, Riffan, the
figures which you made to

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worship, so I will carry you
away beyond Babylon.

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Our fathers had the Tabernacle
of the testimony in the

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wilderness, even as he who spoke
to Moses commanded him to make

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it according to the pattern that
he had seen.

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Which also our fathers in their
turn brought in with Joshua,

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when they entered into the
possession of the nations, whom

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God drove out before the face of
our fathers to the days of

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David, who found favor in the
sight of God, and asked to find

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a habitation for the God of
Jacob.

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But Solomon built him a house.
However, the Most High doesn’t

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dwell in temples made with
hands, as the prophet says.

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Heaven is my throne, and the
earth a footstool for my feet.

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What kind of house will you
build me, says the Lord, Or what

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is the place of my rest?
Didn’t my hand make all these

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things?
You stiff necked and

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uncircumcised in heart and ears,
You always resist the Holy

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Spirit as your Father’s did, so
you do.

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Which of the prophets didn’t
your Father’s persecute?

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They killed those who foretold
the coming of the righteous, one

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of whom you have now become
betrayers and murderers.

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You received the law as it was
ordained by angels and didn’t

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keep it.
Now when they heard these

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things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed at him

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with their teeth.
But he, being full of the Holy

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Spirit, looked up steadfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory

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of God and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God, and said,

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Behold, I see the heavens
opened, and the Son of man

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standing at the right hand of
God.

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But they cried out with a loud
voice and stopped their ears,

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then rushed at him.
With 1 accord they threw him out

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of the city and stoned him.
The witnesses placed their

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garments at the feet of a young
man named Saul.

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They stoned Stephen as he called
out saying, Lord Jesus, receive

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my Spirit.
He kneeled down and cried with a

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loud voice.
Lord, don’t hold the sin against

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them.
When he had said this, he fell

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asleep.
Thanks for joining us on Bible

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truth, anchored in hope, and
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